Report for All the Billing Documents

Hi,
The SD report VF05 can only list for me billing documents belonging to a payer or a material but i want to extract all the billing documents of all the payers and all the materials. Which report can i use for that?

Hi,
If you are using ECC 6.0, then try using the t-code VF05N. In this transaction, you can take the billing documents of all the payers and materials.
Regards
Vijay

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               ort01 type kna1-ort01,      "City
               adrnr type kna1-adrnr,      "Address
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               parvw type vbpa-parvw,      "Partner function
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               lfimg type lips-lfimg,      "Actual quantity delivered
               netpr type lips-netpr,      "Net Price
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               parvw type vbpa-parvw,      "Partner function
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               name1 type kna1-name1,      "Name 1
               ort01 type kna1-ort01,      "City
               adrnr1 type kna1-adrnr,     "Address
               name2 type kna1-name1,      "Name 1
               ort02 type kna1-ort01,      "City
               adrnr2 type kna1-adrnr,     "Address
               name3 type kna1-name1,      "Name 1
               ort03 type kna1-ort01,      "City
               adrnr3 type kna1-adrnr,     "Address
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    data: it_lips type standard table of t_lips.
    data: it_vbpa type standard table of t_vbpa.
    data: it_kna1 type standard table of t_kna1.
    data: it_li_vbpa type standard table of t_li_vbpa.
    data: it_li_vbpa_temp type standard table of t_li_vbpa.
    data: it_final type standard table of t_final.
    *&*********Work Area Declaration********************&*
    data: wa_likp type t_likp.
    data: wa_lips type t_lips.
    data: wa_vbpa type t_vbpa.
    data: wa_kna1 type t_kna1.
    data: wa_li_vbpa type t_li_vbpa.
    data: wa_li_vbpa_temp type t_li_vbpa.
    data: wa_final type t_final.
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    data: d_vbeln type likp-vbeln.
    data: flag type i value 0.
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    selection-screen end of block block2.
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    *   LANGUAGE                          =
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       canceled                          = 1
       device                            = 2
       form                              = 3
       options                           = 4
       unclosed                          = 5
       mail_options                      = 6
       archive_error                     = 7
       invalid_fax_number                = 8
       more_params_needed_in_batch       = 9
       spool_error                       = 10
       codepage                          = 11
       others                            = 12
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    *         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
    endif.
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       form                   = 1
       format                 = 2
       unended                = 3
       unopened               = 4
       unused                 = 5
       spool_error            = 6
       codepage               = 7
       others                 = 8
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    * MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
    *         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
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    *   FUNCTION                       = 2
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       unopened                       = 1
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    *   RESULT                         =
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       unopened                       = 1
       bad_pageformat_for_print       = 2
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       codepage                       = 5
       others                         = 6
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